ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I attempted to analyse the four adaptations I created between 2004 and 2010. The first two products (texts and productions) were created in 2004 and 2005, while I was a student at the ...

This dissertation investigates the potential for horror in the comic repertoires and performance styles of clowns, in an attempt to address the popular questions of why clowns inspire fear as well as laughter, and what ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aims to investigate the phenomena of theatrical events and festivalisations,
specifically aimed at young people. Various methodologies on theatrical events and
festivalisation are integrated ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The terminology used in segregationist discourse that South Africa is a combination
of 'first world' and 'third world' elements has been appropriated from an international
discourse about problems of ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Kenyan culture is deeply rooted in tradition. Many problems arise from the traditional role
and conceptions of the Kenyan woman. These include female genital mutilation, polygamy
and lack of scholastic ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to study the themes of identity and belonging in the films of
Mira Nair. Three films form the basis of this study namely Salaam Bombay!,
Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding. ...

Spectatorship is an essential aspect of the film industry, and hence a key facet of film studies. In film studies, however, the notion of subjectivity is marginalized in a preference for broad generalizations. This is ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Empirical studies have shown that music has a determinable effect on human emotions. In
this study, the function of music is analysed in terms of how it functions in the musical and
the cabaret as genres. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the role and function of theatre critics and reviews in the industry at present.
Characteristics of a good review are also examined and the role of the traditional review in the
‘new ...

The spoken language usually consists of the formal and standardised component and an informal colloquial language. The colloquial language may include some language variants. These variants are forms of the language that ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Creative expression is influenced by social structures and the political climate of the day.
Therefore theatre as a social structure has been directly influenced by colonialism and
apartheid. Restricting ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Euripides’s Medea have been staged a number of times in the new South Africa. This study’s
purpose is to provide a practical example of a rewritten Medea set in a contemporary Afrikaner
community. The ...

This study wishes primarily to explore re-positioning the H.B.Thom Theatre as a cultural
amenity in the Stellenbosch region. The first step was to place the building of the H.B.
Thom Theatre in 1966 in the context of the ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The appearance of actresses on stage during the seventeenth century gave rise to the discarding of
gender boundaries and the exploration of male characters. By investigating the cause and effect and
the ...

The general aim of this study was to establish why students at Stellenbosch University embarked on a course in Drama. The initial hypothesis was that students were attracted to the expressive, therapeutic features inherent ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis the author investigates aspects of the use of improvisation and
improvisational methods, techniques and exercises by modem practitioners.
The study commences with a look at the beginnings ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Central to a site-specific approach to performance is the concern for the potential of unconventional spaces.
Appearing in multiple mediums, there seems to be little clarity on the parameters of this ...

The claim that theatre theorists and critics have historically considered the dramatic text a more important part of theatre than the performance is a prominent theme of 20th century theatre theory. This claim was made in ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines cabaret in South Africa, and more particularly the use of a
personation in cabaret. Cabaret employs a variety of comedic forms that combine to
comment on social and political issues. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Various theoretists and artists have tried to describe, to define and categorise the form
of art that we roughly refer to as ‘cabaret’ in an attempt to answer the question: “What
exactly is ‘cabaret’”? ...